aviation roots it can use. in terms of the us, they say that this is completely unjustified and that they are going to be watching these drills closely. in fact we can listen to the white house s national security spokesperson when he spoke to the bbc earlier. irate spokesperson when he spoke to the bbc earlier. the bbc earlier. we have serious the bbc earlier. we have serious security - the bbc earlier. we have - serious security commitments throughout the region, five of our commitments, and nothing has changed. either about our commitment to help taiwan in self defence, nothing has changed about our one china policy changed about our one china policy. we have said all along that policy. we have said all along that there is no basis, no justification for the chinese to establish some sort of pretext to establish some sort of pretext for this to emerge into a crisis pretext for this to emerge into a crisis or pretext for this to emerge into a crisis or conflict. a crisis o
security commitments throughout the region, five of our seven treaty alliances are there in the indo pacific and nothing has changed. either about our commitment to help taiwan in self defence, and also nothing has changed about our one china policy. we have said all along that there is no basis, nojustification for the chinese to establish some sort of pretext for this to emerge into a crisis or conflict. there is of course whatjohn kirby says there but i think some of our viewers may be thinking that this sounds familiar because we have been through this when it comes to ukraine and russia and the us supporting ukraine and then russia also pushing back against this. there appears to be parallels. there does appear to be a few parallels here but in terms of the history, the geography, the fact that they are separated by waters
stop intimidating ukraine and the wider euro atlantic community. russia has denied all along that it s planning to invade ukraine. it does, though, have demands. top of the list is no nato membership for ukraine. nato is a defensive alliance, and ukraine has sought tojoin it for years. russia also wants nato to stop its expansion eastwards. america hasn t agreed on any of this. let s bring in retired general mark kimmitt, who served in both the us army and the state department under president george w bush. thank you very much indeed for joining us. how do you assess the decision to move the 3000 troops eastwards? i decision to move the 3000 troops eastwards? ~ ., decision to move the 3000 troops eastwards? eastwards? i think more than an hinu eastwards? i think more than anything else eastwards? i think more than anything else is eastwards? i think more than anything else is a eastwards? i think more than - anything else is a demonstration. it demonstrates america is one of th